When four-year-old, fatherless Matthew sees a dragon at his window, he screams for his mother, but instead of being comforted, he is horrified to find she has disappeared. Matthew and his sixteen-year-old sister, Jessica, must find a way to reunite their family. Matthew and Jessica struggle to survive on their own and keep their desperate situation a secret. Then, one night, a dragon captures Matthew. He is rescued by a huge eagle and flown to a far-off, mystical land where he begins the transformation into an eighteen-year-old boy. A half-beaver, half-man named Eliazer finds Matthew and teaches him to protect himself. Matthew also begins to acquire the armour he will need to fight the dragons – a sword of the word, shield of faith, boots of peace and a breastplate of righteousness.
Twelve-year-old genius, Jordana Simkins, has decided to be a teacher. Luckily, Jordana is unusually tall for her age and has very supportive parents and a best friend named Emily to help her prepare for her first day of substitute teaching. While overcoming first-day jitters and kindergartners with wet pants, Jordana must deal with a vice-superintendent, Luella Trites, who believes Jordana is too young to teach. Ms. Trites does her best to ruin Jordana's career by insisting on extra supervision and dropping by Jordana's classroom to complain about her methods. How will Jordana make it through her first day as a substitute teacher?
Jordana Simkins is a 12-year-old substitute teacher getting ready for her second day of teaching. Can she survive a technology-filled grade 2 class? What will vice-superintendent, Luella Trites, do this this time to keep Jordana from teaching well? Jordana will have to keep her wits about her to make it through this challenging day!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a son." So begins "Expectations" . . . a sequel to the timeless romance of "Pride & Prejudice." Many have wondered if Darcy and Elizabeth would find a way to a happily ever after with a traditional family as well. The answer here comes in an unexpected way, along a circuitous route that leaves the reader guessing... and turning pages. Katie O'Connor Kenig, The Newsy Neighbor Expectations begins six months after Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ends. As a newly married woman, Elizabeth Darcy agrees to throw her first ball as mistress of a large and prosperous household. At the same time, she receives a letter from her father encouraging her to produce an heir for her husband, welcomes several visitors to her home and tries to mend broken family relationships via letter. Georgiana Darcy remains unmarried, but feels the pressure to find a suitable mate. Georgiana fights off several marriage proposals while she tries not to fall in love with an old friend.
19-year-old Laura Moore is living in Saskatoon with her boyfriend, Ian Matthews, against the wishes of their parents. Life in Saskatoon is dismal. Laura and Ian live in a dank basement apartment and work at dead-end jobs. When Ian decides he has had enough and leaves Laura to move back home, Laura has a very literary reaction. Defacing Poetry is a novella by Canadian author, Samantha Adkins, who has added nine short stories to create this haunting collection.
Lands ravaged by war of supernatural forces leave despair in the hearts of many. Years after the tragic stand of the gifted proving themselves to the ones they used to call family, present a new deadly hurdle that no eyes see coming. Slow and unstoppable sickness known as the Cry Cell Cancer, which plagues countless residents despite age or any other factor. With nowhere to go, trapped within their own lands, the son of the legendary and infamous Nolan Ceeth steps forward. Aiming to correct past transgressions formed from past actions of his relatives. Starting with the most formidable problem first, Cry Cell. Being public enemy number one leaves him alone with just the ambition to put things right. Will his ambition be enough to keep his home from slow, certain demise?
This book is a little peak into the obnoxious and ridiculous life that I am happy to call my own. From tales of my Lebanese (and sometimes delusional) grandmother to filthy stories of fornication and substance abuse, there are several reasons that I should probably not allow anyone who knows me personally to read this. However, I am very proud and extremely giddy to say that I finally dodged my ADD long enough to complete this project, and I am forerver grateful to all of those in my life who helped create these memories (well, most of them anyways. Oh yeah, and my dad John Raffoul who will most likely murder me if I don't mention that he is solely responsible for the design and photography of the cover, Thanks Dad!). If you are like me and enjoy an easy and pervy read I highly recommend that you pull up your skirt, pour yourself a cocktail, and dive into this lovely book of mine. If you do not, you are a Communist: )
Emma Woodhouse is one of Jane Austen's most beloved heroines. She is smart, well-dressed and rich. But what about Jane Fairfax, her poor, orphaned nemesis? Would the story be so light and sparkling from Jane's point of view? Suspiciously Reserved in Jane's story, set in present-day Canada. Jane has felt uncomfortable living off the goodwill of her wealthy benefactors, the Campbells. Now that their daughter has found the man of her dreams, Jane wonders what her future holds. She feels the necessity of returning to her grandmother and Aunt Hetty. Before she goes, however, she will spend one blissful week by the ocean where she meets handsome, charming Frank Churchill. But can she trust him?
At the height of the Depression on the Canadian prairies, Emmy Bennett seeks independence and adventure teaching in a country schoolhouse. Emmy strives for excellence in her classroom as she scrambles for resources and fights chronic absenteeism. She must depend on a dysfunctional family for her room and board and fight to be paid what she is owed.
From cyberbullying to sibling rivalry, talking with carrots to hiding out in cardboard boxes; dealing with depression or identity crisis, fighting for your life or watching from the sidelines, this collection of short plays tackles peer pressure and other real issues in the lives of high school students through comedy, drama and everything in between."--P. 4 of cover.
Lands ravaged by war of supernatural forces leave despair in the hearts of many. Years after the tragic stand of the gifted proving themselves to the ones they used to call family, present a new deadly hurdle that no eyes see coming. Slow and unstoppable sickness known as the Cry Cell Cancer, which plagues countless residents despite age or any other factor. With nowhere to go, trapped within their own lands, the son of the legendary and infamous Nolan Ceeth steps forward. Aiming to correct past transgressions formed from past actions of his relatives. Starting with the most formidable problem first, Cry Cell. Being public enemy number one leaves him alone with just the ambition to put things right. Will his ambition be enough to keep his home from slow, certain demise?
What is 'fun' about the Hollywood version of girlhood? Through re-evaluating notions of pleasure and fun, The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film forms a study of Hollywood girl teen films between 2000-2010. By tracing the aesthetic connections between films such as Mean Girls (Waters, 2004), Hairspray (Shankman, 2007), and Easy A (Gluck, 2010), the book articulates the specific types of pleasure these films offer as a means to understand how Hollywood creates gendered ideas of fun. Rather than condemn these films as 'guilty pleasures' this book sets out to understand how they are designed to create experiences that feel as though they express desires, memories, or fantasies that girls supposedly share in common. Providing a practical model for a new approach to cinematic pleasures The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film proposes that these films offer a limited version of girlhood that feels like potential and promise but is restricted within prescribed parameters.
When Miss Tiffany Woodall assumes the identity of her half-brother after his death, she realizes she isn’t the only one with a secret to hide in this historical series debut, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Sherry Thomas. 1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn’t murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort’s librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah’s missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered by Mr. Samir Lathrop, the local bookseller, who tries to save her from drowning while she's actually just washing up in a lake after burying her brother. Her plan is going by the book, until the rector proposes marriage and she starts to develop feelings for Mr. Lathrop. But when her childhood friend, Tess, comes to visit, Tiffany quickly realizes her secret isn’t the only one hidden within these walls. The body of a servant is found, along with a collection of stolen items, and someone else grows mysteriously ill. Can Tiffany solve these mysteries without her own disguise being discovered? If not, she’ll lose her cottage and possibly her life.
After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as "Trump Country," decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s, there have been many, including travel writers and absentee landowners, who have framed mountain people as uneducated and hostile. These stereotypes ultimately ward off potential investments in the region's educational system and skew how students understand themselves and the place they call home. Attacking these misrepresentations head on, Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia reclaims the long history of literacy in the Appalachian region. Focusing on five Kentucky newspapers printed between 1885 and 1920, Samantha NeCamp explores the complex ways readers in the mountains negotiated their local and national circumstances through editorials, advertisements, and correspondence. In local newspapers, community action groups announced meeting times and philanthropists raised funds for a network of hitherto unknown private schools. Preserved in print, these stories and others reveal an engaged citizenry specifically concerned with education. Combining literacy and journalism studies, NeCamp demonstrates that Appalachians are not—and never have been—an illiterate, isolated people.
After publishing a book about her experiences with child abuse and opening a facility for battered women and children, Grace Winter thought she was finally free from the shame that haunted her from years of suffering in silence. But when her uninformed boyfriend wants to spend their Christmas with her family, she becomes aware of how far she is from freedom when she stays with her former abusers who never faced the consequences. As Grace attempts to juggle who she is, who her family and boyfriend want her to be, and the expectations of her faith, she runs into her first love, and first heartbreak, who's somehow changed in all the right ways five years too late. With Christmas drawing near, Grace discovers a desire for what she never thought was possible to have: true love and freedom from a life dominated by secrets and lies. She must choose between keeping the peace and bringing the truth to light, doing what makes sense and following her heart, and find out whether it's possible to forgive the unforgivable and allow her faith carry her through.
In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and landscapes situated throughout the African diaspora, performances staged in tropical settings, and bodily expressions of tropicality during Carnival, artists such as Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, and Maya Angelou developed what Noël calls “tropical aesthetics”—using art to name and reclaim spaces of Black sovereignty. As a unifying element in the Caribbean modern art movement and the Harlem Renaissance, tropical aesthetics became a way for visual artists and performers to express their sense of belonging to and rootedness in a place. Tropical aesthetics, Noël contends, became central to these artists’ identities and creative processes while enabling them to craft alternative Black diasporic histories. In outlining the centrality of tropical aesthetics in the artistic and cultural practices of Black modernist art, Noël recasts understandings of African diasporic art.
A stunning new edition of the second novel in the bestselling Bone Season series with gorgeous new cover artwork and updated text, by the bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree. Paige Mahoney has escaped the secret prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London, she nurtures a new taste for revolution. Oxford may be behind her, but the Republic of Scion is undefeated. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, she is forced to return to Jaxon Hall, her charismatic and brutal employer, to keep her foothold in the underworld. But Paige will bow to only one now, and not even Jaxon will stop her exposing the corruption in the syndicate. As she plots to with the fabled Rose Crown, both sides of an ancient conflict seek her talents for themselves.
History, politics, and the world's best free museums: DC is a bustling powerhouse of a city. From strolling the National Mall to hobnobbing at happy hour, get to know the capital with Moon Washington DC. Navigate the Neighborhoods: Follow one of our guided neighborhood walks through Penn Quarter, Dupont Circle, U Street, Adams Morgan, and more Explore the City: Snap the perfect photo of the Washington Monument, tour the U.S. Capitol, and explore the incredible Smithsonian museums like the African American History Museum or the Newseum. Catch a whiff of the fragrant cherry blossoms in the spring, rent a boat and paddle along the Potomac, or shop the boutiques in Georgetown Get a Taste of the City: Chow down on a late-night half-smoke at Ben's Chili Bowl or grab brunch and a new book from Busboys and Poets. Enjoy Michelin-starred seafood at a waterfront restaurant, order up a Chesapeake crab cake, and enjoy the city's diversity of authentic fare from Ethiopia, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and more Bars and Nightlife: Watch a groundbreaking performance at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, catch a live band at the 9:30 Club, or dance to a DJ set at the Black Cat. Sip scotch where former presidents once did, try a five-course cocktail tasting menu, or kick back with a beer and fries at a quintessential DC dive bar Local Advice: Local journalist Samantha Sault shares her love of the nation's capital Strategic, Flexible Itineraries including the three-day best of DC, a weekend with kids, and more, plus day trips to Old Town Alexandria, Annapolis, Easton, and Shenandoah National Park Tips for Travelers including where to stay and how to navigate the Metro, plus advice for international visitors, LGBTQ travelers, seniors, travelers with disabilities, and families with children Maps and Tools like background information on the history and culture of DC, full-color photos, color-coded neighborhood maps, and an easy-to-read foldout map to use on the go With Moon Washington DC's practical tips and local insight, you can experience the city your way. Expanding your trip? Check out Moon Maryland, Moon Virginia, or Moon Chesapeake Bay. Visiting more of America's best cities? Try Moon Boston or Moon Chicago.
Biomaterials, Medical Devices, and Combination Products is a single-volume guide for those responsible for-or concerned with-developing and ensuring patient safety in the use and manufacture of medical devices.The book provides a clear presentation of the global regulatory requirements and challenges in evaluating the biocompatibility and clinical
This enticing section of North Carolina's Southern Coast, often referred to as the Cape Fear Coast, finds the luckiest, if not the most sagacious, of explorers flocking to its pristine beaches year after golden year. Whether planning a weekend jaunt or settling in permanently, the coastline is thoroughly detailed in this definitive guide.
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